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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer. — Mark Billingham

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another. — John Hodgman

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry. — Pamela Paul

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. — Harold Bloom

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay

Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book. — Nicholaa Spencer

A writer should be judged on how red they make their reader's eyes. — Luke Taylor

The pages of a book are given life only as they are opened — L.J. DeVet

Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word — Ann Simpson

And must I, perchance, like careful writers, guard myself against the conclusions of my readers? — Djuna Barnes

Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it — William Meikle

Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy place! — Denise Walter McConduit

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! — Darnaya Darice

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story. — Stephen Graham Jones

I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem. — Tina Smith

Writers need readers and readers need writers — Caroline James

All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read. — George R R Martin

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people. — Rachel Caine

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see — Charles Tilly

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it. — Karin Slaughter

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? — Hal Duncan

Read, mediate and pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone. — John Cheever

when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. — Vladimir Nabokov

Memoirists collect experiences in an attempt to capture the fluttery thing we call life.
---from Blog-"Readers, Writers and Pumpkin Pie — Peggy Barnes

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney

Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live — Suchet Chaturvedi

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian McEwan

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. — Sarah MacLean

If you give a writer a line, they'll take a paragraph ... — Suzanne McKenna Link

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world. — Colm Toibin

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days. — Nicholaa Spencer

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie — Susan Marie

It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone. — Thomas C. Foster

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. — Bernard Cornwell

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs. — Laura Anne Gilman

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men. — Teresa Medeiros

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see at that moment. — Christopher Bram

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it. — A.D. Posey

Reading about another era is like armchair time travel--without the baggage. — CJ Fosdick

The best gift you can give me is a book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to be heard, an author must have readers... — Rachel Heffington

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. — Thomas Swick

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them. — Neil Gaiman

I'm addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read. — K.D. Green

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other. — Horace Walpole

A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer. — Anthony Liccione

Read different to think differently; world is already into rat race. — Aman Jassal

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. — Marlon James

Writers write like readers and read like writers. — Laura Hamilton

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination. — Sandra Alex

Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention? — David Richards

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers ... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer. — Rossana Condoleo

Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so. — Christopher B. Krebs

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book — Johnny Rich

I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers. — Maggie Stiefvater

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice. — Elizabeth Hernandez

Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space. — Jeanette O'Hagan

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader. — Aman Jassal

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — C.D. Wright

A good reader has the power to move the world. — Aman Jassal

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff